Suspender-buckle



(No Model.)

P. H. RICHARDS. SUSPENDER BUCKLE.

No. 435,453. Patented Sept. 2, 1890.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANCIS H. RICHARDS, OF HARTFORD, ASSIGNOR TO THE TRAUT & HINE MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT.

SUSPEND'ER-BUCKLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 435,453, dated September 2, 1890.

Application filed May 1, 1890. Serial No. 350,236. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRANCIS H. RICHARDS, a citizen of the United States,residing at Hartford, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Suspender-Buckles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to buckles for suspenders, and to that class of said buckles having cast-offs, the object being to provide a buckle of that class which shall be simple in construction, cheaply manufactured, and readily operated.

In the drawings accompanying and forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a front or side view of a buckle embodying my present improvements. Fig. 2 is an edge view of the same drawn in projection with Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section through the middle of the buckle.

Similar characters designate like parts in all the figures.

The buckle-plate B is provided with the usual holding-teeth, as 7, Fig. 3, for engaging the web 3 of the suspender, with meansas the lever L, carried on pivots i 4 formed on the plate-for clamping the web 3 in engagement with said teeth to secure the plate to said web, and with means for carrying the elastic hanger S, said means consisting in two suspension-hooks 6 and 8, of suitable construction and oppositely disposed to engage the loops 26 and 28, formed on the two sides 16 and 18, respectively, of said hanger S.

The hanger S consists of a depending central portion or loop formed of the sides 16 and 18, connected at their lower ends by the band 23, to which the middle strap 15 may be attached. At their upper ends said sides 16 and 18 have formed thereon the oppositely-dis posed. loops 26 and 28, whose upper and inner sides engage the aforesaid correspondinglyformed hooks 6 and 8, and to whose lower sides are attached the straps 11 and 13, respectively, by any suitable means or method.

It will be observed that,-as shown in Fig. 1, the hooks 6 and 8 are both upwardly and inwardly directed, so that the hanger S cannot be detached by merely lifting the same, but onlybyclosing toward each other the saidloop- 5o shaped ends thereof. For more securely supporting the said straps the lower sides of the loops 26 and 28 may be extended to the upright sides 16 and 18 and clasped thereto, as

at 25 and 27, respectively, thus making a strong and reliable structure.

WVhen thecast-off feature of the buckle is to be used, the user grasps the hanger by the upper ends or loops and closes together the sides thereof until said loops 26 and 28 6o disengage from the hooks 6 and 8, when the hanger may be taken off, thereby completing the separation of the two principal parts of the suspender.

Having thus described my invention, I claim- 1. In a buckle, the combination, with the buckle-plate B, having the upwardly and inwardly directed hooks 6 and 8, of the hanger S, having the central depending loop, and the loops 26 and 28, constructed to engage said hooks.

2. In a buckle, the combination, with the buckle-plate B, having hooks, substantially as described, of thehanger having the strapprovided loops engaging said hooks, said loops having their strap-carrying sides extended to and clasping the sides 16 and 18, respectively.

3. In a buckle, the combination, with a buckle-plate, substantially as described, hav- 8o ing the oppositely-disposed hanger-supporting hooks, of the depending strap-provided loop having its upper ends terminating with strap-carrying loops constructed to engage said hooks.

FRANCIS H. RICHARDS.

Witnesses:

HENRY L. RECKARD, W. M. BYORKMAN. 

